Abstract

VOSCOBOINIK, Sonia Raquel  and  MAFFIA, Marta Mercedes. National Meetings of Migrant Leaders: Spaces of Emergence and Consolidation of African Leadership in Argentina. Migr. Inter [online]. 2023, vol.14, rmiv1i12645.  Epub June 26, 2023. ISSN 2594-0279.  https://doi.org/10.33679/rmi.v1i1.2645.

This article analyzes the construction of leadership of three African migrants, one of Congolese origin and two Senegalese, in the National Meetings of Migrant Leaders (ENLM, for its acronym in Spanish) held in Argentina from 2014 to 2020. For this purpose, participant observations and interviews with different degrees of depth have been used. The research results indicate that the three migrant leaders have had very heterogeneous roles within the meetings. Their leadership trajectories show unique ways of building legitimacy and visibility and are supported by a differential accumulation of social and political capital. Some contributions of this article are: (a) reconstruct the complexity and diversity of their trajectories, (b) make visible the role of African migrant leaders as human rights promoters, and (c) construct a non-criminalizing view of their political forms of organization.

Keywords : leadership; trajectories; African migrants; Africa; Argentina..

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